Weyrich, a Racine native who died in 2008, didn’t just found ALEC. The right-wing political apparatchik was the founding president of the Heritage Foundation, and led the Free Congress Foundation, a politically and socially conservative think tank striving, as its website used to say, to “return [America] to the culture that made it great, our traditional, Judeo-Christian, Western culture.” He helped shape the right-wing agenda for more than thirty years.”

This article explains how Scott Walker wants to call that Constitutional Convention proposed by Weyrich as well.

Saul Newton’s blog is part of our Purple Wisconsin project. Newton is the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Veterans Chamber of Commerce and a U.S. Army veteran.

What is driving Scott Walker’s war on Wisconsin universities Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Rally Point June 10, 2015 “Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin’s colleges have been the targets of an ideologically motivated attack to undermine and dismantle higher education in this state. In his first term, Walker slashed funding for Wisconsin universities and technical colleges by nearly $400 million while in-state tuition rose by double digits. As tuition increased Walker froze funding for financial aid programs and cut tuition assistance by nearly $40 million, forcing college students to carry the weight of his extreme budget cuts. Earlier this year, Scott Walker defied the national trend and intensified his war on the on the University of Wisconsin System by proposing a massive budget cut of $300 million, the largest funding cut in University of Wisconsin history. He also included a proposal in the budget to eliminate portions of the Wisconsin Idea, the University of Wisconsin’s mission statement that codifies that the purpose of the University of Wisconsin System is to improve people’s lives outside the classroom. When confronted, Walker claimed the changes were the result of a “drafting error” and quickly withdrew the proposal. Records later revealed that Walker’s office had directed the changeso ver the concerns of University of Wisconsin System administrators. In addition, Walker’s budget proposal includes unprecedented assaults on academic freedom and university governance that are already driving away professors and facultyfrom across Wisconsin. Walker’s crusade against higher education is not “reform,” but is actually strategic and coordinated assault on universities across this state.”